Re: [PATCH][RESEND][Trivial] Documentation: sysrq, description of'h' slightly inaccurate

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Aug 13 2007 - 14:56:53 EST


On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 20:31:27 +0200 Jesper Juhl wrote:

> (Resending a patch from 21 May 2007 that never got any response)
>
>
> Hello,
>
> In Documentation/sysrq.txt, the description of 'h' says that any key not
> listed *above* will generate help. That's obviously not true since all the
> keys listed below 'h' will do what they are described to do, not display
> help. So change the text so that it says that any key not listed in the
> table will generate help, which is what really happens.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>

Probably due to my alphabetization of the sysrq keys.

> ---
>
> Documentation/sysrq.txt | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/sysrq.txt b/Documentation/sysrq.txt
> index ba328f2..865b271 100644
> --- a/Documentation/sysrq.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/sysrq.txt
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> Linux Magic System Request Key Hacks
> Documentation for sysrq.c
> -Last update: 2007-MAR-14
> +Last update: 2007-AUG-04
>
> * What is the magic SysRq key?
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ On all - write a character to /proc/sysrq-trigger. e.g.:
> 'g' - Used by kgdb on ppc and sh platforms.
>
> 'h' - Will display help (actually any other key than those listed
> - above will display help. but 'h' is easy to remember :-)
> + here will display help. but 'h' is easy to remember :-)
>
> 'i' - Send a SIGKILL to all processes, except for init.
>
>
> -

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~Randy
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